On: Go for the JVM, written in Scala

[justincormack]

The fannkuch benchmark is one where Go beats Java, and has a hugely better memory usage. But these benchmarks are highly suspect (they dropped LauJIT recentl despite it being the fastest dynamic language).

C does not have a standard threading library, which is why there is no benchmark.

Plan 9 did not have a lot of funding. Java did.

[igouy → justincormack]

>>beats Java, and has a hugely better memory usage<<

Do you understand that's the default JVM memory allocation?

>>But these benchmarks are highly suspect...<<

But "highly suspect" is just name calling.

>>C does not have a standard threading library, which is why there is no benchmark.<<

No it is isn't, here's a C program that uses pthread for multi-core

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?test=mand...

[burgerbrain → igouy]

Pthreads is not part of any of the C standards. Your credibility is sorely hurting.

[igouy → burgerbrain]

Thank you for your Red Herring.

1) Where did anyone say pthreads was part of the C standards?

2) As I said, "C does not have a standard threading library" is not the reason why there's no C fannkuch-redux program that uses multi core.

[burgerbrain → igouy]

C does not have a standard threading library. Pthreads is a threading library for C that happens to be standardized.

The difference between these two statements, while perhaps subtle, is quite massive.